Most of you will have come across the thread asking you to pick the new TF design (here). It ran for a good while and mine was the favoured one so we are now looking to press ahead with finishing it off and getting it active.

As I said before, I don't see the big benefit with the excess width. You're giving 15-25% (depending on your traffic data) of your visitors not only a scroll bar, but you're also cutting off a portion of 3/5 ad units for those users. All with no otherwise added value.

This is pickier, but I also don't fully understand the map lines. What do topographical maps have to do with freelance discussion?

I really like everything else about it though. The colors are awesome and the flow is very nice.

One other thing that I wanted to share with you so you keep it in mind when working on the profile page (Jamie's idea by the way). Let's make it more visual, and as such, each member can profile his/her own strengths/years of experience in certain areas (various coding languages, design software, SEO and other skills), so we can have beautiful looking bars (or another graphical element that you think is better) that would give a clear visual of member's expertise at one glance.

We can later on also feed member's iTrader, marketplace feedback score/listings, blog posts to the profile page, too. As well as their latest Tweets, links to LinkedIn, Facebook, TF portfolio, whatever it is we build. Think bigger on it, with the underlying tone of keeping a profile page a professional representation of the member.

3.) It represents the current TFL in no way at all. At the very least, incorporate some current colors.

Losing these colors is one of the things I am most looking forward to. I absolutely hate the current design, I think it is among the worst designs I've ever seen on a forum (I've seen worse, but none of them were implemented). I see no reason to keep the current TF colors, they aren't even the original ones anyways.